Sony created a battery-powered PS1 and shoved it inside a DualShock controller, but "couldn't get their act together about the royalty terms"

the industry veteran explains that by manufacturing the PS1 plug-and-play in [Brazil], "you got around a lot of their import regulations." This is a strategy that has been used throughout console history, with the likes of Sega teaming up with Samsung to make Mega Drive and Master System consoles in South Korea due to Japanese import bans.

Pretty neat idea to basically just sell a controller. Too bad it doesn't say which ten games they crammed on the 4gb memory card.

Though sadly it never went forward by itself, interesting to see the Brazilian bureaucratic hellhole having positive repercussions for once.